The heart and soul of this year’s From Nature exhibition at Gasworks Arts Park is Albert Park Pre-School’s exhibit The Butterfly Effect. It’s in the foyer. The children have created an exhibit both disarmingly simple and deeply wise. In language of enviable simplicity, their project comprehensively explores the elements of sustainability and conveys our utter […]
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Heritage
Bruce
A lean black cat has moved into our street. He throws himself into your path demanding to be known. Meet Bruce, the prompt for this post. Stanley Melbourne Bruce was Prime Minister between 1923 and 1929. Bruce was educated at Melbourne Grammar and at Cambridge. He served at Gallipoli. He moved comfortably between Melbourne and […]
Port & South
Pavilions in an urban forest
The fences came down at the exhausted end of the year when attention and time were scarce. Martin Foley, recently re-elected as the state member for Albert Park, opened the newly completed Pickles St campus of Albert Park College on 18 December before dashing off to Albert Park Primary School’s end of year function. No […]
Fishermans Bend & Montague
Wrapping up
I had barely pressed the send button on the Review of Port Places for 2018 when we had the weather event of the year. Around 6pm on Friday 14th December, 16.6mm of rain fell in less than 30 minutes leading to localised flooding which was particularly severe in low lying Montague. The fifth, biennial State […]
News & Views
Election 2018
The Victorian election is on Saturday but the die may already be cast. A record 970,454 people had already voted by Wednesday 21 November – compared to 585,869 in 2014.1 The seat of Albert Park is held by Labor’s Martin Foley on a margin of 3%. He first won the seat in 2007 at a […]
Port of Melbourne
Station Pier
A recurring complaint in Port Melbourne is that Station Pier is off limits to locals – even though that is only partly true. It is open except on cruise ship days – the number of which increase each season. But like a restaurant that is closed on the day you visit, the impression lingers. This […]
PORT & SOUTH MELBOURNE
Pavilions in an urban forest
The fences came down at the exhausted end of the year when attention and time were scarce. Martin Foley, recently re-elected as the state member for Albert Park, opened the newly completed Pickles St campus of Albert Park College on 18 December before dashing off to Albert Park Primary School’s end of year function. No […]
FISHERMANS BEND & MONTAGUE
Wrapping up
I had barely pressed the send button on the Review of Port Places for 2018 when we had the weather event of the year. Around 6pm on Friday 14th December, 16.6mm of rain fell in less than 30 minutes leading to localised flooding which was particularly severe in low lying Montague. The fifth, biennial State […]
DOCKLANDS
Flinders Bank
John Lack, the historian of Footscray, bemoans the quality of today’s local papers.1 He wonders where future local historians will find the detail of the debates in councils that were covered in local papers of yore. The audio recordings of Council meetings are an excellent source. While they may not be everybody’s idea of a fascinating […]